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  2. Greek fire - Wikipedia

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    The first and, for a long time, most popular theory regarding the composition of Greek fire held that its chief ingredient was saltpeter, making it an early form of gunpowder. [ 46 ] [ 47 ] This argument was based on the "thunder and smoke" description, as well as on the distance the flame could be projected from the siphōn , which suggested ...

  3. Fire (classical element) - Wikipedia

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    Fire and the other Greek classical elements were incorporated into the Golden Dawn system. Philosophus (4=7) is the elemental grade attributed to fire; this grade is also attributed to the Qabalistic Sephirah Netzach and the planet Venus. [12] The elemental weapon of fire is the Wand. [13] Each of the elements has several associated spiritual ...

  4. Multiplication - Wikipedia

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    Here, 2 is being multiplied by 3 using scaling, giving 6 as a result. Animation for the multiplication 2 × 3 = 6 4 × 5 = 20. The large rectangle is made up of 20 squares, each 1 unit by 1 unit. Area of a cloth 4.5m × 2.5m = 11.25m 2; 41 / 2 ⁠ × 21 / 2 ⁠ = 11 ⁠ 1 / 4

  5. List of mathematical constants - Wikipedia

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    A mathematical constant is a key number whose value is fixed by an unambiguous definition, often referred to by a symbol (e.g., an alphabet letter), or by mathematicians' names to facilitate using it across multiple mathematical problems. [1]

  6. Greek mathematics - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] Greek mathematicians lived in cities spread over the entire region, from Anatolia to Italy and North Africa, but were united by Greek culture and the Greek language. [3] The development of mathematics as a theoretical discipline and the use of deductive reasoning in proofs is an important difference between Greek mathematics and those ...

  7. Factorial - Wikipedia

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    1 1: 1 2: 2 3: 6 4: 24 5: 120 6: 720 7: 5 ... matching to within a constant factor the time for fast multiplication algorithms ... Legendre's formula implies that the ...

  8. Son of Sinbad - Wikipedia

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    Also on trial are Greek scholar Simon Aristides, and his daughter Kristina, Sinbad's childhood friend, who has been wrongfully accused of stealing. After the Khalif orders that Sinbad and Omar be executed, his advisor, Jiddah, persuades him to meet with Murad, the ambassador to Tamerlane , a Tartar leader whose forces are threatening to invade ...

  9. Byzantine units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    14: 0.0787 Half-pous Half-foot: hēmipódion (ἡμιπόδιον) 12: 0.1574 Span: spithamḗ (σπιθαμή) 3 ⁄ 4: 0.2361 Pous : poûs (ποῦς) 1 0.3123 Derived from the ancient Greek foot, the standard foot length in Byzantium seems to have been 0.3123 m, but in practice the length fluctuated between 0.308 and 0.320 m [7 ...